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Samsung Digital Camera Can Be Controlled With Android App

The Samsung SH100 is a pretty standard, but quality, Wi-Fi digital camera. It packs an impressive 14.2MP, has 5x optical zoom and takes MicroSD and SDHC cards.

But it’s also got a hidden secret. Download the associated Android app for your smartphone and you can control the camera over WiFi using your phone, take photos with it and even view your photos afterwards.

Yogile – Photo Sharing Site with a Group Focus

Yogile makes itself out to be a group photo sharing site the likes of which we haven’t seen before – it offers simplicity that can’t be achieved elsewhere.

The feature that sells it for me is that anyone is able to submit photos to your account by email – unlike Flickr where every single photo has to be uploaded or emailed by you, you just set an address and anyone with photos can email them to that address as attachments and they’ll be posted online – your friends and family don’t even need to register.

Firefox 4 Released, Boasts 6x Faster JavaScript Engine, Crash Protection, Much More

Firefox 4 Splash

Hot on the heels of Internet Explorer’s v9 release, Firefox 4 is out. The highly anticipated latest version of the Mozilla Foundation‘s flagship product, Firefox has a slew of new features, and in particular touts its huge boost in speed that puts it back on par with Google’s Chrome browser.

What’s New?
Firefox 4 boasts a slew of new features and you can read the full list in the release notes, while we point out the highlights:

  • A new JavaScript engine that is 6x faster than what’s in Firefox 3.6.
  • Firefox Sync is built-in. We talked about Weave before it became Sync.
  • Firefox now looks a lot of Chrome (and IE and Opera) in the way that it puts the tabs at the top and gets rid of a lot of the window’s extra footprint including menus and borders. It’s the in-way to build browsers until the next new thing comes along…
  • Protection against crashes by subsystems or plugins like Flash causing the whole browser to crash.
  • Panorama – a new visual overview of all open tabs, similar to some existing extensions for FF 3.x.

That is just a taste, and developers in particular will be chomping at the bit to test out some of the new HTML5 and CSS3 support, so look forward to even more websites moving into the new era as older browser fall by the wayside.

You can download Firefox 4 right now and add to the more than 11 million as of the time of this writing!

tXtBlocker Stops You From Texting – Makes the World A Lot Safer

Using your phone in your hand while driving is illegal in many countries around the world, but sometimes it is all too tempting to reply to that text you just got. Especially if you’re on a long straight road and can see where you’re going, right? Only thing is, you’re actually 23 times more likely to crash when holding your phone than not.

That’s where tXtBlocker comes in. This software blocks texts to your phone when you’re engaging in certain activities to make you and others around you a whole lot safer.

iTwin Gives you an Affordable Cloud

The iTwin USB Remote File Access USB sticks lets you share one computer’s data with another computer anywhere in the world, as long as both computers are connected to the Internet.

Plug the primary iTwin device into your main computer, and then carry the secondary device around with you. When you need to access your files, just plug the secondary iTwin device into your computer like a memory stick and it will access your files on your main computer. The only requirement is that the computers both need to be connected to the internet.

Gravity Balans – The Chair that Makes You Weightless

Gravity Balans Chair by Varier

Recently we featured the Herman Miller SAYL Chair which claimed to be one of the comfiest available in the world. We’ve now got a new contender for this – the Gravity Balans by Varier. The chair is designed to make you feel like you’re free of gravity and is shaped to make you feel like you’re actually floating.

Ciil Tech’s First Fully Outdoor TV

Summer is coming soon and if you’re a fan of garden parties it might be time to invest in an outdoor TV. Running a cable from your sitting room outside just isn’t going to look good enough anymore. Ciil make these outdoor LCD 1080p TVs for your enjoyment whilst in the hot tub.

Okay, so the contrast ratio isn’t great at 4,000:1 and brightness from 450cd/m2 to 700cd/m2 but they do work outside and that’s what’s important here!

Plantronics Voyager PRO Bluetooth and USB Wireless Headset

If you’re busy talking to people all day and switching from phone to computer constantly, it would make sense to have a dual-purpose headset. Plantronics’ Voyager PRO does exactly that.

This wireless headset has bluetooth compatibility, but also has a USB receiver for your PC and when needed can swap between the 2 transmitters.

White Noise Generator Helps You Shut Out Auditory Distractions

If you suffer from distracting background noise where you’re working you might want to take a look at Speech Privacy System’s White Noise Generator. The website does exactly what it says in the name – generates white noise so that you can ‘concentrate’ on your work.

PHOSPOR Reveal Watches Use E-Ink To Display the Time

Just when you thought no one could reinvent the watch, PHOSPHOR Watches did it. Instead of having a hand ticking round, or an LCD screen on your watch, PHOSPHOR use E-Ink to display the time.

The watches work by passing positive and negative charges over particles so that they produce a pattern, in this case the time. Full science details here. This makes them quite unique, and they look pretty good too. Pricing is an issue – they vary from $200 to $250. If you can achieve a similar effect with an LCD watch for $10 then it might not be worth it. Up to you!

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